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Huang S, Zhang D, Zhuang J · 2026 · Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)
Prosocial risk-taking is defined as engagement in altruistic behaviors that may have personal costs. Emerging research indicates that testosterone-a gonadal steroid hormone-is linked to behaviors aimed at promoting one's social status. In…
View details →Mingolo S, Prpic V, Cipora K et al. · 2026 · Psychological research
The SNARC effect indicates that numbers are mapped from left to right as in a mental number line. Accumulating evidence suggests that it could be attributed both to the magnitude or to the order of numbers, but the role of these two…
View details →Manippa V, Brancucci A, Rivolta D et al. · 2023 · Food Quality and Preference.
Displaying foods congruently with the healthy-left/unhealthy-right (HL/UR) horizontal mental representation could, through self-control facilitation, lead to healthier food choices. Here, by using two versions of the same on-line menu, we…
View details →Smirnova I, Shannon A, Teplitskiy M · 2025 · Research policy
In many industries trainees often seek careers different from their mentors. For example, many PhD students seek non-academic careers. Anecdotally, mentors invest less in different-career trainees, but causal evidence is lacking. To fill…
View details →Greenburgh A, Zamperetti L, Bell V et al. · 2024 · Royal Society open science
Paranoia is associated with variation in social behaviour, such as lower inclination to trust others or to behave generously in economic game settings. Such variation may stem, in part, from a reduced tendency to socially identify with…
View details →Howes MT, King J, Rosengren RJ · 2025 · Nutrients
Background/objectives Metabolic (dysfunction)-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), the hepatic consequence of metabolic syndrome, affects 30% of the global population. Studies in animals and humans investigating the effect of…
View details →Taylor LM, Parsons J, Moyes SA et al. · 2024 · Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
Objectives To investigate the effect of an exercise program on falls in intermediate and high-level long-term care (LTC) residents and to determine whether adherence, physical capacity, and cognition modified outcomes. Design Randomized…
View details →Hassan M, Al Balah O, Hegazy A et al. · 2026 · Journal of the Saudi Heart Association
Background Transcranial photobiomodulation (TPBM) using near-infrared (NIR) light is a novel, non-invasive neuromodulation strategy with potential to enhance neurorecovery. While preclinical studies are promising, clinical evidence in…
View details →MacMillan MB, Neath I, Roodenrys S · 2024 · Memory & cognition
A word's orthographic neighborhood is the set of words that differ from the target word by one letter. Both Roodenrys (2009) and Robert et al. (Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 44, 119-125, 2015) posit that orthographic neighbors are…
View details →Woodbury J, Offerdahl E · 2024 · CBE life sciences education
Team-based learning (TBL) is a highly intense active learning pedagogy that uses a cycle of preclass preparation, formative assessment for readiness, mini-lectures, and complex team exercises. Consistent with the literature on active…
View details →Bickerstaff L, Trinkl J, Munkwitz S et al. · 2025 · F1000Research
Background The photic sneeze reflex (PSR) is a common but underexplored phenomenon where bright light triggers sneezing, affecting ~30% of the population. This study aimed to characterise the light conditions inducing PSR. Methods One male…
View details →Bahadoran S, Vaeznia S, Hassanpour H · 2026 · Veterinary and animal science
This study evaluated the effects of dietary Echinacea purpurea supplementation on immune regulation, oxidative stress, and cellular aging in broiler chickens reared at high altitude (2100 m). One hundred and eight day-old male Ross 308…
View details →Leger K, Dong J, DeBruine LM et al. · 2023 · Scientific reports
Perceptions of the trustworthiness of faces predict important social outcomes, including economic exchange and criminal sentencing decisions. However, the specific facial characteristics that drive trustworthiness perceptions remain poorly…
View details →Yoon S, Rottenberg J · 2025 · BMC psychology
Background Does what a person desires to feel (affect valuation) predict their future affective reaction to salient life events? We tested this idea in the context of an exam, a key achievement-oriented event for college students. Methods…
View details →Singstock M, Abdul Khader AHS, Wayant C et al. · 2026 · The oncologist
Background Oncology clinical trials, regardless of success in meeting their primary endpoint, often suffer from spin-the misrepresentation of research findings. Despite dramatic improvements in myeloma outcomes, numerous recent myeloma…
View details →Cusimano C, Kim J, Wong J · 2025 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
It is common to say that people feel entitled to rewards-they think they have earned or deserve them-based on their effort and achievement. However, effort and achievement draw on different principles to justify reward. They can also…
View details →Nakata Y, Watanabe Y, Ozaki A · 2026 · Cureus
Background The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether the workstyle reform, aimed at improving physician health and safety, achieved a secondary goal of enhancing surgical productivity by applying the Malmquist Index (MI) model. We…
View details →Xu H, He Y · 2026 · BMC psychology
BACKGROUND: Interparental relationship quality and attachment are theorized to be associated with young adults’ marital attitudes, yet evidence in Chinese cultural contexts is mixed. We tested whether interparental conflict versus divorce…
View details →Coker JA, Sun R, Polzer PM et al. · 2026 · ACS chemical biology
Point mutations in the exonuclease (ExoN) site of nonstructural protein 14 (NSP14) compromise the fitness of betacoronaviruses such as SARS-CoV-2, implicating NSP14 ExoN inhibition as an antiviral strategy. However, there are no advanced…
View details →Ye S, Wu M, Yao C et al. · 2024 · eNeuro
Visual working memory (VWM) requires precise feature binding. Previous studies have revealed a close relationship between the posterior parietal cortex (PPC) and feature binding during VWM; this study further examined their causal…
View details →Yao Q, Yao Y, Liao Z et al. · 2026 · Clinical and applied thrombosis/hemostasis : official journal of the International Academy of Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis
BackgroundSepsis and its complications pose a major global health burden. Mendelian randomization (MR) provides a genetic approach to assess causality.MethodsWe conducted a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) study using data from…
View details →Allard A, Clavien C · 2023 · PloS one
The recent replicability crisis in social and biomedical sciences has highlighted the need for improvement in the honest transmission of scientific content. We present the results of two studies investigating whether nudges and soft social…
View details →Hou, Yu, Shen et al. · 2026 · Archives of oral biology
This study explored low-magnitude high-frequency (LMHF) mechanical vibration as a strategy to expand mandibular condylar chondrocyte (MCC) populations with enhanced chondrogenic phenotypes, providing high-quality cellular resources for…
View details →Abelovska, Malinova, Sucha et al. · 2026 · Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology
This pilot study evaluated "Your Health Belongs to You," a six-week group intervention combining psychotherapy and exercise to improve quality of life, emotional health, and symptom management in individuals with Multiple Sclerosis (MS),…
View details →Shih, Hsu, Yang et al. · 2026 · Anticancer research
Oral cancer represents a major health burden in Taiwan, with tobacco use, alcohol consumption, and betel quid chewing recognized as predominant environmental risk factors. Matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) has been implicated in tumor…
View details →van Keulen, Voogt, Kleinjan et al. · 2026 · JMIR mHealth and uHealth
Excessive alcohol consumption among adolescents and young adults is a serious health problem. Dynamically tailored interventions could reduce their excessive drinking. We therefore developed "What Do You Drink" (WDYD), a 17-week…
View details →Wang, Matsuyama, Kiuchi et al. · 2026 · Journal of dentistry
To examine whether multiple routine oral health practices reduce all-cause mortality, and how these associations are modified by sociodemographic, behavioral, and health related factors. Data were derived from the Japan Gerontological…
View details →Cengiz, Yıldırım, Yaşaroğlu et al. · 2026 · Dysphagia
This study aimed to investigate the effects of Tongue Hold Maneuver (THM), Mendelsohn Maneuver (MM), and Effortful Swallow Maneuver (ESM) performed under different gravitational positions (90° sitting, 45° sitting, supine, and…
View details →Bakhshalipoor, Bolandi, Nahidi et al. · 2026 · Scientific reports
This study evaluated the effects of double nanoemulsions of saffron petal extract (DN-SPE), stabilized with soybean (SPI) and pea protein isolates (PPI), alone or combined with Lepidium sativum L. seed gum (LSG) (SL or PL), on the quality…
View details →Kawamura, Masaki, Kato · 2026 · Journal of pharmacological sciences
Acetylcholine-mediated modulation of pain-associated behaviors has been progressively well described. The mechanisms of cholinergic antinociception have been reported to involve the activation of nAChRs or mAChRs modulating GABAergic…
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